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I’m supporting an inspiring Haitian youth leadership program called the Nouvelle Vie (New Life) Youth Corps. The Nouvelle Vie Youth Corps empowers Haitians to rebuild their own lives free from trauma, and to develop local, sustainable systems of food, water, and waste management – by Haitian for Haitians. According to Samuel, age 21, a Nouvelle Vie youth leader:'It’s in sharing and in taking responsibility that we become someone very powerful, someone who can truly help. It’s my dream that my country is no longer a country that is waiting for everything to come from the outside, but a country that can produce for itself, a country that truly invests in its youth. That is what I want to do. That is my responsibility. That’s why I’m taking responsibility for changing my country.' Unlike the millions who are waiting for aid and solutions to come from the outside, Nouvelle Vie’s Haitian youth leaders have been serving their own people and creating local solutions since before the earthquake. Since April alone, Nouvelle Vie’s youth leaders have provided effective trauma relief for 2,850 Haitian earthquake survivors, including rape victims, orphaned children, and youth from Cite Soleil, Haiti’s most violent slum. They have taught 400 orphansand urban communities how to grow their own food and have developed food gardens and vermicomposting systems that can sustainably feed, repair soil and manage waste. Nouvelle Vie is a project of the International Association for Human Values (IAHV), one of the world’s largest volunteer-based humanitarian organizations. 96% of your tax-deductible donation will directly support the Youth Corps’ training and the trauma relief and sustainable agricultural services they provide, which will impact nearly 500,000 Haitians directly affected by the earthquake. I invite you to join me in supporting the Nouvelle Vie Youth Corps. You can learn more and get involved at www.nouvelleviehaiti.org Thanks.